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The pathetic fallacy isn’t nearly as insulting a term as it might sound: It’s a term for ascribing human thoughts or emotions to inanimate things. (As in “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” Clouds aren’t lonely. Read the definition here on Wikipedia.)
In fundraising, ...
You can’t really avoid AI. Even if you completely boycott it, people around you are using it.
It has meaningful downsides. Here are some issues you should be aware of. None of them have anything to do specifically with fundraising.
AI Brain fry. You’re not imagining it. It’s a thing. AI exhausts you. It bowls you over. It tires you out ...You’ve been told that your writing should “show, not tell.” That’s good, but here’s a dive into what that might actually mean for your fundraising storytelling, from OBrien on Message, at What does Ernest Hemingway eating oysters alone in a Paris café have to do with your next message?
If you haven’t already noticed this, you will eventually:
Donors are way more likely to give to do something specific than to give you money to keep your organization going.
Problem is, you really need unrestricted funds. To do all the boring stuff like keep the lights on and fix the copier — the stuff that actually makes your org...
The best AI tool is not intelligent. It’s not conscious. It doesn’t “know” anything.
It mimics those things by seeing patterns and spitting them back.
That’s all.
It does that at incredible speed, and it finds and spits back patterns of mind-boggling complexity. But there’s no intelligence involved.
That’s why AI makes bafflingly stupid...